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- klassehesse.com
- hfg-offenbach.de
- biennale-decn.com
- adc-sushi.com
- 11designer.de
- hesse-design.com
- idz.de
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Klaus Hesse (born 1954 in Elberfeld) is a German graphic designer.
Klaus Hesse studied photography and typography at the University of Wupperthal. In 1988, together with Christine Hesse he founded the agency Hesse Design in Düsseldorf; the duo also ran an office in Berlin between 2001 and 2004. In 2016, he founded another studio in Shanghai, China. The agency is behind corporate designs for Audi, Bewag, Dekra, State Capital Düsseldorf, the Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart Trade Fair, Swarovski and the Upper Middle Rhine World Heritage Site, to name a few. They have been nominated for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany on several occasions and have won over 200 national and international awards. In 2006, Klaus Hesse won the long-established competition for the visual identity for the Kiel Regatta Week that year.
From 1993 through 1999, he taught as a professor for communication design at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and the University of Essen (today Folkwang University of the Arts). Klaus Hesse has been head of the Communications Design Department at the University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main from 1999 to 2020. In 2006, his faculty topped the ranking of creative universities as chosen by German news magazine Focus. From 2011 to 2018, he was dean of the art department. Klaus Hesse was co-initiator of the 11 Designers for Germany on occasion of the 2006 World Cup and of the 1st Graphic Design Biennale Germany China in 2010, and editor-in-chef of the sushi yearbook from 1998 through 2015. He has also conducted a series of tours giving lectures and holding workshops, which took him to Kraków, Poland, Puebla, Mexico, Basel, Switzerland, the Chinese metropolises of Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an and Chongqing, Sydney, Australia and Cape Town, South Africa. Hesse is also a member of the Type Directors’ Club, New York.
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Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main. It borders Frankfurt and is part of the Frankfurt urban area and the larger Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. It has a population of 138,335.
Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer, designer and writer. He is an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Bremen and ArtCenter College of Design.
Peter Behrens was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s. He was a foundation member of the German Werkbund in 1907, when he also began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design,graphic design, producing typefaces, objects, and buildings for the company. In the next few years, he became a successful architect, a leader of the rationalist / classical German Reform Movement of the 1910s. After WW1 he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid 1920s increasingly to New Objectivity. He was also an educator, heading the architecture school at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1922 to 1936. As a well known architect he produced design across Germany, in other European countries, Russia and England. Several of the leading names of European modernism worked for him when they were starting out in the 1910s, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.
Fons Hickmann is a German graphic designer and professor of Communication Design at the Berlin University of the Arts. He is the founder and director of the design studio Fons Hickmann m23.
The Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach am Main is a German art and design university located in Offenbach am Main, in the German state of Hesse. It was given university status in 1970, and founded in 1832.
The Ulm School of Design was a college of design based in Ulm, Germany. It was founded in 1953 by Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill, the latter being first rector of the school and a former student at the Bauhaus. The HfG quickly gained international recognition by emphasizing the holistic, multidisciplinary context of design beyond the Bauhaus approach of integrating art, craft and technology. The subjects of sociology, psychology, politics, economics, philosophy and systems-thinking were integrated with aesthetics and technology. During HfG operations from 1953–1968, progressive approaches to the design process were implemented within the departments of Product Design, Visual Communication, Industrialized Building, Information and Filmmaking.
Xia Xiaowan is a painter.
The University of the Arts Bremen is a public university in Bremen, Germany. It is one of the most successful arts institutions, and its origins date back to 1873. The University of the Arts Bremen runs a Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, and a Faculty of Music, with approximately 900 students, 65 professors and about 180 assistant professors.
Henry Steiner is an Austrian graphic designer, best known for his corporate identity designs. He has created designs for some of the most identifiable brands, such as IBM, Hyatt Regency, Hilton Hotels, Dow Jones, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Unilever, and was commissioned to design the city's bank notes by the Hong Kong government in 1975. Steiner was educated at the Sorbonne and at Yale. In 1964, he founded his own consultancy firm, Steiner&Co, in Hong Kong.
Hans Erich Slany was a German designer considered by many to have been the first industrial designer to design plastic housings for power tools. Slany is also thought of as one of the icons of design in Germany. He founded TEAMS Design GmbH, was a Professor of Industrial Design (ID) for more than 20 years and helped found the Verband Deutscher Industrie Designer e. V. in 1959. He then helped the VDID with their entry into the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID).
Peter Zizka is a German designer and conceptual artist.
Georg-Christof Bertsch is a German corporate identity and organizational behavior consultant – and honorary university lecturer.
Frank Rocholl is a German Graphic Designer, Art Director and Typeface Designer. He is also Creative Director and co-editor of the international fashion publication Mirage Magazine.
Hans G. Conrad was a photographer and graphic designer in the 20th century.
Max Uhlig is a German painter. He won the Hans Theo Richter-Preis of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste in 1998.
Marc Jozef Magareta van den Broek is a Belgian artist and sculptor.
Paul Strecker was a German artist and writer who painted and designed sets for opera and theater.
Niklaus Troxler is a Swiss graphic designer. He was the organizer of the Willisau Jazz Festival from 1975 to 2009.
Klaus Urbons is a German photographer and xerography printmaker. He is a pioneer and leading figure of copy art in Germany and not only. He founded the Museum für Fotokopie, and is the author and translator of books on the history of Copy Art and photocopiers, as well as a curator and a collector.
Gertrude Degenhardt is a German artist, especially a lithographer and illustrator, based in Mainz. She is known for illustrating the texts and albums of Franz Josef Degenhardt and of other political writers and singers including François Villon, Liam O'Flaherty, Bertolt Brecht, and Wolf Biermann. In the 1990s, she turned to topics around women, portraying them in art books such Women in Music, Vagabondage in Blue, and Vagabondage en Rouge.
